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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

To illustrate, Cilente Skendall shared that one activity not considered “service” by most respondents was “alternative breaks”—short trips designed to provide students with “service immersion experiences.” Funding lines don’t necessarily have to change to support service,” he said.

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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One valuable section of the report is a catalog of common project designs across different sub-areas of the social change sector, including: Crisis Response, Economic Empowerment, Education, Environment, Equality and Inclusion, Health, and Public Sector. Organizations want to prioritize responsibility but don’t know how.

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Using Video for Women's Empowerment in Rural India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I recently learned about an nonprofit organization in India dedicated to using video to help alleviate poverty and accelerate social change in the developing world. In looking at some of the project examples , I found several that focus on women's empowerment and rights in India. The organization is called Video Volunteers.

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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

ASU Lodestar Center

Use performance measurements sensitive enough to detect gradual changes so that small scale initiatives can be informative. Participatory processes engage diverse stakeholders in collective thought, action, and decision-making, while increasing the capacity of individuals and communities through skill building and empowerment.

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Caravan Studios Showcases Diverse Apps for Social Good

Tech Soup

Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup, hosted a breakfast in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood for nonprofits, app developers, and anyone interested in changing the world for the better. Apps4Change's continued success largely depends on you downloading and using the apps to change the world for the better.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

What can people do to change that? There is raising awareness, saying, "This is an issue that you are not keeping in mind when you are creating policy," but, then, what is necessary to make that change? Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland. AD: Well, there are a lot of different ways.

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Creating Markets for Fair Trade Gifts: An Interview with Priya Haji of World of Good

Have Fun - Do Good

Holly has now been out meeting with the International Labor Organization and thinking about different ways that you really help create empowerment for women who work in informal markets. The other thing we do through World of Good Development Organization, is we make grants back to the communities for economic development projects.

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